On youths avoiding excessive austerity (John Love)

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Avoid improprieties, which in youth might be particularly unseemly. Such would be an excessive austerity and sourness. Be as firm as you please in opposing known evils, but, as much as possible, let it be done pleasantly. And watch, as against fire, the least taint of arrogance, of vanity, and of proud affectation.

John Love, ‘The Best Counsel, and the Best Inheritance: A Sermon, Preached in the Tron Church, January 28. 1818, in connection with the Establishment of the Glasgow Sabbath Evening School Youths’ Union’ in Sermons Preached on Public Occasions: With Fifteen Addresses to the People of Otaheite, and A Serious Call Respecting a Mission to the River Indus (Glasgow: Maurice Ogle, 1826), p. 159.
 
Avoid improprieties, which in youth might be particularly unseemly. Such would be an excessive austerity and sourness. Be as firm as you please in opposing known evils, but, as much as possible, let it be done pleasantly. And watch, as against fire, the least taint of arrogance, of vanity, and of proud affectation.

John Love, ‘The Best Counsel, and the Best Inheritance: A Sermon, Preached in the Tron Church, January 28. 1818, in connection with the Establishment of the Glasgow Sabbath Evening School Youths’ Union’ in Sermons Preached on Public Occasions: With Fifteen Addresses to the People of Otaheite, and A Serious Call Respecting a Mission to the River Indus (Glasgow: Maurice Ogle, 1826), p. 159.
Looks like John Love knew about the Internet before Al Gore.
 
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